Does a truth serum really exist?

Answer 1

Yes.

Truth Serum
Thiopental is still used in some places as a truth serum. The barbiturate drugs as a class decrease higher cortical brain functioning. Since lying is more complex than the truth, suppression of the higher cortical functions may lead to the divulgement of the "truth." Reports indicate that thiopental has been used during the interrogation of Abu Faraj al-Libbi[5] in Pakistan and Abu Salem in India.

Answer 2

yes and no, there is a serum out there that opens one to suggestion, and break down free will, but are you really getting the truth or manufatured truth from what questions were asked, I believe it is called Sodium penthanol.. don't quote me on spelling

Answer 3

yes it is used in criminal investigations. truth drug (or truth serum) is a drug used for the purposes of obtaining accurate information from an unwilling subject, most often by a police, intelligence, or military organization on a prisoner.

Drugs used for this purpose have included ethanol, scopolamine, and sodium thiopental (more commonly known as Sodium Pentothal)—all sedatives that interfere particularly with judgment and higher cognitive function. While alcohol is used for this purpose by many individuals in a more innocent sense, it is apparently used by professionals as well. A book by a former Soviet KGB officer based in Washington, Washington Station, details the use of near-pure alcohol to verify that a Soviet agent was not compromised by US counter-intelligence services.

While fictional accounts of intelligence interrogation gives these drugs near magical abilities, information obtained by publicly-disclosed truth drugs has been shown to be highly unreliable, with subjects apparently freely mixing fact and fantasy. Much of the claimed effect relies on the belief of the subject that they cannot tell a lie while under the influence of the drug.

As of 1993 in Canada these were still used to help diagnose schizophrenic subjects, especially paranoia where the difficulty was to get the subject to talk at all. Subjects experienced with other hallucinogenic drugs reported similarity of effects of sodium amytal to that of LSD or psilocybin, but for a 20 minute period.

Interest in their use outside intelligence services has since declined to negligible levels—though their use has been re-examined after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. It is possible, but thought unlikely by experts in anaesthetics (the drugs most closely resembling truth drugs in common use), that intelligence services do have more effective drugs at their disposal which they have not disclosed.

Truth drugs, like anaesthetics, have a recovery period. Some leave subjects with intense nausea, disorientation, lack of balance, tiredness or other discomforting symptoms for a considerable time after being used.

Narcoanalysis was the old name given to the procedure of questioning a psychiatric patient while still under the influence of a narcotic drug given in very low dosage to ensure proper function of the remaining parts of the brain except the prefrontal brain region.

Narcosynthesis is the act of giving orders and instructions and making suggestions to a human subject while he/she is under the influence of a narcotic drug used in low dose. The subject is unconscious. His/her brain's prefrontal lobes are inactive under the drug's influence. The remaining parts of the brain are active. The orders, instructions and suggestions given to the subject state and determine what the subject will do and/or what he/she will think at a predetermined time in the future when he/she will be conscious. These orders, instructions and suggestions are recorded in the unconscious part of the brain. They are not remembered while the subject is conscious. These orders, instructions and suggestions are executed while the subject is conscious when their predetermined time is up. The subject perceives these as thoughts, impulses, intentions and desires which come up to his/her consciousness in a sudden manner. The given orders and instructions are executed in an automated fashion without any influence from the conscious mind. The subject perceives these events as the instinctive and uncontrolled execution of his/her own desires and impulses coming from the unconscious. The method of narcosynthesis can be strenghtened, augmented by the use of pain infliction during the process of giving orders and instructions. ie by torture.

Answer 4

Yes it's called sodium pentathol. The easiest way to see what the affects are, to watch Meet the Fockers. There is a scene there and that depects EXACTLY what happens to you when dosed with sodium pentathol

Answer 5

yes. it is sodium pentathlete. it is not a magic potion of any sort, and does not always coax the truth out of people, but it does make the interrogated very talkative, and hard to think.

Answer 6

What are you talking about? I've learned how to make veritaserum in Hogwarts. You didn't?

Answer 7

Yes, but it is illegal because a person's free will is infringed upon when it is used.

Answer 8

I doubt it! But I may be telling a tie?

Answer 9

yes

it is called sodium pethenal

Answer 10

I thought you meant tequila.